Bestsellers

With such a vast array of brilliant authors and titles consistently being published it is difficult to try and select which titles you should include, the following are the titles most frequently purchased for use in a variety of whole school reading schemes such as Tutor Time Reading or DEAR (Drop everything and read) If you need any advice feel free to give us a call on 01427 614343 where one of our super helpful team will be happy to help.

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A Monster Calls

A Monster Calls

A Monster Calls is defined to be the bestselling novel about love, loss and hope from the twice Carnegie Medal-winning Patrick Ness, and even soon to be major motion picture. The character of Connor appears to have the same dream every single night, ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 236
  • MBE Code : 119
Original price was: £8.99.Current price is: £6.29. 30% off
The Boy In The Tower

Boy In The Tower

When they first arrived, they came quietly and stealthily as if they tip-toed into the world when we were all looking the other way. Ade loves living at the top of a tower block. From his window, he feels like he can see the whole world stretching...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 336
  • MBE Code : 563
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.19. 35% off
Coraline

Coraline

There is something distinctively strange about Coraline’s new home… It’s not the mist, or the cat that always seems to be watching her every move, nor the signs of danger that her new neighbours, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, supposedly read...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 208
  • MBE Code : 253
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.59. 30% off
The Case Of The Missing Marquess

Enola Holmes: The Case Of The Missing Marquess

When her mother disappears on her fourteenth birthday, Enola Holmes - the much younger sister of the famous detective Sherlock - suddenly finds herself in the care of her brothers. While Sherlock begins to investigate, his brother Mycroft sets about ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 192
  • MBE Code : 573
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.59. 30% off
Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 172
  • MBE Code : 425
Original price was: £9.99.Current price is: £6.99. 30% off
Ghost Boys

Ghost Boys

A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a white police officer, drawing connections with real-life history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes. ALIVETwelve-year-old Jerome doesn't get into trouble. He goes to ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 214
  • MBE Code : 315
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.59. 30% off
Heroes

Heroes

Heroes, a widely known book that is used within many schools across the country. Where we provide you with every text inside of a protective plastic wallet, for the assurance of longer life ware. All available to you in as little as the next day, at ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 144
  • MBE Code : 114
Original price was: £8.99.Current price is: £6.29. 30% off
His Dark Materials: Northern Lights

His Dark Materials: Northern Lights

The first volume in Philip Pullman's groundbreaking His Dark Materials trilogy, now a thrilling, critically acclaimed BBC/HBO television series. First published in 1995, and acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, this first book in the series won the ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 448
  • MBE Code : 344
Original price was: £8.99.Current price is: £6.29. 30% off
I Must Betray You

I Must Betray You (Shortlisted for the YOTO Carnegie Medal 2023)

Trapped by an evil dictatorship, will Cristian be forced to betray his family or will he risk everything he loves to resist? A bestselling YA thriller based on real events, from a prizewinning author. Cristian has lived his entire life in the ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 320
  • MBE Code : 523
Original price was: £8.99.Current price is: £5.84. 35% off
Impossible Creatures

Impossible Creatures

There's a place where all the wildest stories began . From Katherine Rundell, the British Book Awards Author of the Year, comes the paperback release of the first novel in the critically acclaimed, award winning, best-selling Impossible ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 384
  • MBE Code : 710
Original price was: £8.99.Current price is: £6.29. 30% off
Lord Of The Flies

Lord Of The Flies

Lord of The Flies won a Nobel Prize For Literature. This paperback is a staple of many secondary school children's backpack. MBE Books supply plastic jackets free of charge which are already fitted to the books. Next day delivery and high quality ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 226
  • MBE Code : 108
Original price was: £9.99.Current price is: £6.99. 30% off
My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece

My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece

My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece, is based around the time of five years ago, when Jamie’s sister, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. And as an act of grief, the family were torn apart. His mum ran away, His dad turns to drink and ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 234
  • MBE Code : 201
Original price was: £8.99.Current price is: £6.29. 30% off
October, October (Carnegie Shortlisted 2022)

October, October (Carnegie Winner 2022)

A classic in the making for anyone who ever longed to be WILD.October and her dad live in the woods. They know the trees and the rocks and the lake and stars like best friends. They live in the woods and they are wild. And that's the way it is.Until ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 292
  • MBE Code : 451
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.59. 30% off
Of Mice And Men

Of Mice And Men

Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 122
  • MBE Code : 109
Original price was: £8.99.Current price is: £6.29. 30% off
Rooftoppers

Rooftoppers

Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Already being proclaimed a classic in children's literature and compared to the likes of Roald Dahl and Eva ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 288
  • MBE Code : 364
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.59. 30% off
Stone Cold

Stone Cold

The title of Stone Cold is a Carnegie Medal-Winning thriller, created by the author Robert Swindells. This intense thriller plot has been combined with the perceptive and distressing portrait of what life is like on the streets, as a serial killer ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 144
  • MBE Code : 126
Original price was: £8.99.Current price is: £6.29. 30% off
The Bone Sparrow

The Bone Sparrow

The Bone Sparrow is a beautiful, captivating and a deeply moving read that reflects upon a refugee boy, named Subhi. All he knows of the world is that he is at least 19 fence diamonds high and at night he dreams that the sea finds its way to his ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 240
  • MBE Code : 163
Original price was: £8.99.Current price is: £6.29. 30% off
The Boy At The Back Of The Class

The Boy At The Back Of The Class

WINNER OF THE BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD 2019 WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE 2019Told with heart and humour, The Boy at the Back of the Class is a child's perspective on the refugee crisis, highlighting the importance of friendship and ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 298
  • MBE Code : 195
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.59. 30% off
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 224
  • MBE Code : 409
Original price was: £8.99.Current price is: £6.29. 30% off
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

The endearing character of Bruno, is just a nine-year-old boy, who knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to all of the appalling cruelties which are being afflicted on the people of Europe. By his Country. And all ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 228
  • MBE Code : 110
Original price was: £8.99.Current price is: £6.29. 30% off
The Girl of Ink and Stars

The Girl of Ink and Stars

Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize & the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year Forbidden to leave her island, Isabella dreams of the faraway lands her cartographer father once mapped. When her friend disappears, she ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 240
  • MBE Code : 388
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.19. 35% off
The Giver

The Giver

THE GIVER is the classic award-winning novel that inspired the dystopian genre and a major motion picture adaptation for 2014 starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift. It is the future. There is no war, no hunger, no ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 256
  • MBE Code : 202
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.59. 30% off
The Help

The Help

Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver... There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 464
  • MBE Code : 396
Original price was: £9.99.Current price is: £6.99. 30% off
The Inheritance Games

The Inheritance Games

A BILLION-DOLLAR FORTUNE TO DIE FOR. Avery has a plan: keep her head down, work hard for a better future. Then an eccentric billionaire dies, leaving her almost his entire fortune. And no one, least of all Avery, knows why. A DEADLY GAME. Now ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 376
  • MBE Code : 552
Original price was: £8.99.Current price is: £6.29. 30% off
The Light In Everything

The Light In Everything (Shortlisted for the YOTO Carnegie Medal 2023)

From the author of October, October, winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal 2022, comes a life-affirming story about blended families and learning to find room in your heart for new life and new love. Tom is still quiet and timid, even though his dad ...
  • Book Cover : Paperback
  • Number Of Pages : 318
  • MBE Code : 522
Original price was: £7.99.Current price is: £5.19. 35% off